The Last Ferry of Zabolotye
7 hrs. 57 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Nastasya Renzhina
Author
Nastasya Renzhina
Narrator
Irina Patrakova
Narrator
Irina Patrakova
Description
Nastasya Renzhina, author of the bestseller “Grandma Said to Sit Quietly,” begins a series of regional prose “Window into Russia” with a story about her Vologda land.
In the northern Zabolotye, on the banks of the Sheksna, the landscape and people’s lives are drawn into a single, tightly bound knot. The ferryman Mikhail is truly attached to this harsh region and to the mysterious flooded church in Krokhino, which rises from the water like a shadow of a bygone age. He holds fast to his native roots and hopes that it is still possible to build a tomorrow here as well. His wife Ira, worn down by poverty and despair, sees the village as a quagmire of decay: a place where, in every home, there is someone else’s suffering, old losses, and unrepented sins.
“The Last Ferry of Zabolotye” is Nastasya Renzhina’s new book, author of the bestseller “Grandma Said to Sit Quietly.” This is a moving novel about the Russian North and the vanishing villages of Vologda land—about the power of place, family wounds, and the difficult choice: to stay with one’s native land or step into the future.
In the northern Zabolotye, on the banks of the Sheksna, the landscape and people’s lives are drawn into a single, tightly bound knot. The ferryman Mikhail is truly attached to this harsh region and to the mysterious flooded church in Krokhino, which rises from the water like a shadow of a bygone age. He holds fast to his native roots and hopes that it is still possible to build a tomorrow here as well. His wife Ira, worn down by poverty and despair, sees the village as a quagmire of decay: a place where, in every home, there is someone else’s suffering, old losses, and unrepented sins.
“The Last Ferry of Zabolotye” is Nastasya Renzhina’s new book, author of the bestseller “Grandma Said to Sit Quietly.” This is a moving novel about the Russian North and the vanishing villages of Vologda land—about the power of place, family wounds, and the difficult choice: to stay with one’s native land or step into the future.
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